Display stand



A. E. AND s. DAVIS.

DISPLAY STAND.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, 1921.

1',4.( )18,O79. Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

awuawioz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. ALBERT E. DAVIS AND SIMON DAVIS, OF KEW'GARDENS, NEW YORK.

DISPLAY STAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb, 28, 1922.

Application filed May is, 1921. Serial No. 469,878

To aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, ALBERT E. DAvIs and Srnon DAVIS, citizens of the United States, and residents of Kew Gardens, Queens County, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Stands, set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to window display advertising. Heretofore it has been usualin displaying advertising matter in a store window' to provide stiff sheets of card-board or mounting-board on the face of which was carried the advertising matter. Besides the expense entailed by the extra thickness of the mounting-board beyond that which was necessary merely to carry the advertisement, there has been'much inconvenience in trans porting such advertising sheets on account of the fact that the package must be of a size at least equal to the size of a single sheet of advertising matter, because one of these stiff sheets cannot be rolled or folded without breaking. These disadvantages of course are present regardless of whether the advertising sheet is an original advertisement or a replacement. Warping is also a disadvantage.

The object of the present invention is to make possible the flat-surfaced display of advertising matter the same as heretofore, but produced in printing or the like solely upon flimsy, rollable sheets such as print paper. Heretofore, more or less flimsy sheets have been supported for display on casels, artists stretcher frames and the like, but in carrying out the applicants invention it is purposed to provide a collapsible frame which itself may be transported with convenience and dispatch in a bundle of small size and which, when opened up for service in a window, is capable of mounting a flimsy sheet of advertising so that the entire display is fiat and self-sustaining independently of the floor or other parts of the chamber of window which it occupies. To this end a display stand, itself capable of exerting the necessary tension and providing the necessary supports both in the localities and directions necessary is con- I templated.

The above and further objects of our in vention will be pointed out more particularly in the following claims which are directed to the illustrative embodiment of the invention described in the following specification inconnection with the accompanying drawings, which are shown merely for purposes of illustration, and in which like characters designate corresponding parts in the several figures. In the drawings- Fig; 1 1s a front elevation of our displaystand mounting a sheet in position for display;

F1g. 2 is a rear elevation, with parts broken away, showing the details of the tension mechanism Fig. 3 is a sectional view, partly in elevation, taken along line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of our display-- stand showing the same partially collapsed to form a compact carrier package; and

Fig. 5 is a detail view of a friction grip for the tension links as a modification for the hooks. I V

In the construction of our stand, we preferably provide a lower. string piece A and a parallel upper string piece B, the upper string piece being preferably of a length approximating the width of the sheet C of advertising. It is preferred. that the string pieces A and B be made out of some light, stiff material such as channel iron or sheet metal havlng edge beads 1,2. The lowerstring piece A is preferably of a length greater than the width of the sheet C to provide space at its ends 3 and 4 for the attachment of supporting brackets 5 and 6, which carry swiveling extensions 7 ends capable of extending out laterally from the string piece A to form a suitable self-sustaining frame for the entire stand. The brackets 6 are 1 able bolts or rivets 13 at their lower ends to the bottom string piece A. Each of the uprights D and E is similarly swiveled by bolts orrivets 14.- to the respective ends of the upper string piece B. Each upright is likewise preferably provided intermediate its length with an elbow or swiveling-joint 15 which may be reinforced by the sliding clip 16 with its lips 17 riding on the heads 1 and 2 of the channel bead structure of the strut whereby its opposite lips 18 may he slipped into and out of engagement with the and E and converge downwardly to grip 5. In any similar beads of the bottom section of each strut. These sliding clips 16, together with the straddling clips 12, are very useful in stiffening the stand. 7 y

Tension links 20 and 21 are fixed at their lower ends in a suitable manner as by eyes 22 and sale the struts E and D and are adapted to converge upwardly and grip the flap Z) of the sheet C passing over, down and back of the string piece B as through the me; dium of the hooks and eyes% or friction grippers 25, shown in the modification of Fig. 5. WVhen the stand is to be transported or otherwise out of use,'the links 20; may be fastened out of the way in the channel ofthe struts D and E as by securing their ends to the fastenings 26 and 27.

I A pairof tension links 30 and 31 are fixed at their upper ends in a suitable manner ,as by eyes 32 and 33 secured to the struts D the lower flap (1 of the sheet C passed underand up back of the lower string piece A.

This gripping may be accomplished by means of hooks 3a and 35 taking into eyee leted holes 36 and 37 or may be in the form of. friction grippers 25, as illustratedin Fig.

sion links 30 and 31 not only tend to drag; the fiap a upward to draw the sheet C down ward and around the bottom string piece A but at the same time to exert a soreadin a a l h tensionupon the flap a tokeep thesheet C laterally as well as vertically extended Both the tension of the spring links 30- and 81 and the action of gravity tends to draw the sheet C tightly about the upper string piece-B, while the reaction of the top links 20 and21, attached as they are on the bias or, as they have been described, converging upwardly, tend to draw the top flap of'the sheet C out in the direction of the width of the strip and maintain a smooth display of the same, so that the outer face 40, of vthe sheet C is maintained fiat, practically the same as if it were paste-mounted upon a The same as for the links 20 and 21, it is preferred that eyes or attachment posts 42 and 43 be provided to secure the ends as and 35 of the links 30 and 31 when the stand is to be collapsed for transportation, as indicated in Fig. 4:. r i

What we claim and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is 1. A display stand for window advertising comprising a collapsible skeleton frame providing, when extended, a pair of horizontal vertically spaced string pieces; jointed struts for maintaining the separation of event, it is desired that the tensaid string pieces; foot-supports extending out from the plane of sa d string pieces for supporting said stand from the floor; means for gripping a flap of a display sheet in ing inwardly towards each other a'ndcapa-v ble of gripping a flap of said sheet'extend- 111g over and back of-said upper string plece so as to exert a spreading tensionupon the same; a pair of tension links fixed at, their uppe ends and converging downwardly-in wardly and capable of gripping the lower flap of said sheet as itpasses under and up back of said lower string pieceand capable of exerting a spreading tension uponsaid flap. Y

ing comprising a collapsible skeleton frame providing, when extendecha pair of parallel string pieces; struts for maintaining the separation and parallel relation of said string pieces; means for supporting said skeleton frame from the floor; means secured to said frame for exerting an active spreading tension upon the terminal flap of a sheet of flimsy sign-displaying'material which has been freely passed about one of said stringpieces; and means for detachably securing the opposite terminal flap of said sheet about the opposite said string pieces.

4t. Display stand for window advertising comprising a collapsible skeleton iframe comprising a bottom string piece; support ing feet secured to the ends of said string piece and capable of extendlng out laterally therefrom to form a floor support ]O1I1i ed struts )ivoted to saidbottom strin iece near its ends; a top string piecepivoted'to the upper ends of said jointed struts; and stay clips secured to the upper ends of said feet and adapted to grasp said jointed struts when they are in upright position for the purpose of stiffening the structure.

In witness whereof we have signed our names to this specification, at New York, N. Y., this 21st day of April, 1921.

, ALBERT E. DAVIS.

SIMON DAVIS.

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